‘Vinyl’ HBO: Preview, Start Time and How to Watch Martin Scorsese Drama

The show is created by celebrated director/producer Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter.

HBO has always been in the business of broadcasting some of the best TV shows on the planet and they’re certainly looking to strike gold once again with Vinyl, the creation of legendary director Martin Scorsese and equally legendary Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger that will premiere on HBO on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016.

“Vinyl” spins its sweeping tale around Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale), the founder and president of the once illustrious American Century Records. Recalling the era, Jagger said that NY in the smack-middle of all that attractive chaos was a place for great art, music, culture on one side and on the other it was not a very good place to live, in utter bad shape financially, and hard for a single musician!

“We had a lot of incarnations as movie scripts and then we never really were a hundred percent satisfied with [them]”, he pointed out, “so when the TV series medium came along, we decided to make it into a series rather than a movie…It was very long and very sprawling, and it would have been a very long Martin Scorsese movie”.

“It’s a drama series and so what you concentrate on is the characters and the narrative”, Mick maintained. “Right out of the gate, you’re in the hands of someone who doesn’t remember things as they happen”. “It’s about the unfolding story and the way the characters work together”. Apart from Cannavale, who will play the chief of the record label, the series will star Olivia Wilde, Juno Temple, Ray Romano, Andrew Dice Clay and Jagger’s son, James, who will play the lead singer of a fictional band called the Nasty Bits.

It’s somewhat coincidental that a show about the music industry and vinyl comes out during a time when it’s making a comeback.